Rubber boot



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOPHIA M. OBERLANDER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

RUBBER BOOT.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 288,846, dated November20, 1883.

Application filedseptember 522, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, Sornm M. OBERLA'N- DER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Rubber Boots, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to an improvement in rubber boots, the object beingto provide a boot suited for ladies wear which shall have a water-prooffoot and a high leg of internal capacity for the largest person, and atthe same time provision to cause the upper part of the boot-leg to fitclose about the leg of a person.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is a view of the boot as seenwhen the flap is buttoned. Fig. 2 is a view showing the flap open andexposing the lacing. Fig. 3 is atop view of the boot-leg. Fig. 4 is afront view of the boot-leg.

The letter A designates the water-proof foot of an ordinary rubber boot;B, a high leg attached to the foot. The leg has a flap, 0, one of thevertical sides of which is integral with or permanently attached to theside of the boot-leg, from which point the flap extends across the frontof the leg, and its free vertical side opens from the top of the legdownward to a point near or just above the instep. Near the edge of thefree side of the flap are holes (I, and. the leghas on the outer side arow of buttons, 6, thereby providing for fastening the flap. Theboot-legand flap are composed of rubber. The'front of the leg, which the flapcovers, has inside of the flap two face-pieces, f, each having astraight vertical edge, f, which two together form a center slit fromthe top of the boot-leg to a point above the lower part of the flap,whereby, when the flap is fastened,

the said slit and face-pieces will be completely covered. The facepiecesmay be composed of any suitable material, not necessarily of rubber.Each side of the face has a row of lacing-holes, g, and an ordinary shoestring or lace, h, is employed to draw the two pieces of the facetogether, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, whereby the top of the boot-leg maybe made to clasp the leg of the person, while if the boot-leg be toolarge the flap may stand off therefrom. This boot may be readily drawnon the foot, and then the front slit is laced to cause the upper part ofthe bootleg to fit close about the leg of the wearer. Then the flap isbrought over the lacing and buttoned. Thereby the boot is comfortableabout the leg, a neat appearance isproduced, and Water is excluded.

I am aware that in the manufacture of boots and shoes 2. buttoned flaphas been employed to cover a laced slit, and such, therefore, I do notclaim, broadly.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by LettersPatent of the United States A rubber boot having a waterproof foot,

at the front with a center vertical slit extending from the top to apoint above the instep

